Are Christmas cards no longer a thing?

[patphil]

32. My wife and I are experiencing the same thing.

This year we got about 1/2 the number of cards we used to get...only about 15 or so.
Back in the 50's, my mother would send out a couple hundred cards each year; most of them with short notes in them. She would start working on them in November. She kept a notebook with the names and addresses, and columns for each year. If we received a card, she would check it off. Several years with no card would get you dropped from the book. It was a very social thing.
Now people communicate in different ways. Still by phone, but also by text message, e-mail and social media.
The Christmas card was a way of keeping the connection between people open; to let them know we were thinking of them. Letters did the same for the rest of the year.
Letters have pretty much disappeared now, and Christmas cards are headed down the same track.

I think this was the first year my wife didn't have any desire to send out cards. Some was because of death in the family (3), but also because of the feeling that next year would be even worse than this year.